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2/n from Czechoslovakia to Auschwitz. The dogs are barking and the guards are laughing as the beautiful Helena is undressed and shaved. The humiliations of the concentration camp only get worse as the weeks go by, until the SS officer Franz Wunsch hears her sing 
2/n It's a photo that shocked many Americans. A little boy walking past corpses in Bergen-Belsen, his gaze averted. That boy was 7-year-old Sieg Maandag from Amsterdam.
2/n Robert’s hip was injured during delivery, resulting in a permanent disability.
2/n The transport of 1,200 children and 20 adults, traveled for 3 days by train and arrived on the 24 or 25 August at Theresienstadt.
2/n contagious and dangerous. But, in fact, it was all a ruse. A trio of doctors — Vittorio Sacerdoti, Giovanni Borromeo, and Adriano Ossicini — invented the disease to save Jews in Italy. When Jews came to Fatebenefratelli Hospital seeking a safe haven from the Nazis,
@AuschwitzMuseum 2/n “The registration office was under the command of the lawyer Dr Erich Krull. We sat on a bench where we received a number … A voice gave the order to put everything we had into a hat and said we could not keep anything. The walls were full of posters prompting us to hand in
2/n About a thousand internees arrived at the Drancy camp in June, another thousand in July, including 250 children rounded up between 21 and 25 July 1944 in UGIF children's homes in the Paris region.
2/n Kurt Gerron,*May 11, 1897, was a well-known artist. After his professional ban in Germany, he fled, was caught in Holland, and deported to Theresienstadt.
2/n company with blind workers that produced brushes and brooms for the army. His employees were almost all blind, deaf or mute Jews whom a Jewish nursing home near Berlin. When the deportations began, fearless, he argued with Gestapo officials to save every single Jewish worker.
2/n a high standard of living. However, she found the German occupation of France intolerable and decided to join the Resistance.
2/n Born in Lithuania, but educated in Russia, in 1940, Christian woman named Ona Šimaitė moved to Vilnius (Vilna), long known as “the Jerusalem of Lithuania.” There, Ona took a job as librarian at Vilnius University just as the Lithuanian people faced the looming German invasion
2/n From 1925–38 he worked in Vienna and Opava as an illustrator, painter and book-designer. He was arrested in 1939 for helping German communists to cross the border illegally and sent into forced labour.
2/n prisoners’ low station and the general disregard with which the Germans treat them. Contrarily, German officials and even German prisoners are given leather shoes, which are far more comfortable and less likely to cause dangerous infections. Near the end of the story, as the 
2/n On September 1st, 1939, the Holocaust broke out in Europe. On September 4th, the Germans occupied Sosnowiec.
2/n Father Bruno Reynders (1903-1981), the savior of more than three hundred Jewish children under the Nazi occupation, was born in Ixelles. Back on the perilous route of this priest in whom Israel recognized a “Righteous of the Nations”. First there is the campaign of May 1940
2/n At the beginning of the war Switzerland had a Jewish population of between 18,000 and 28,000 and a total population of about 4 million. By the end of the war, there were over 115,000 refuge-seeking people of all categories in Switzerland, representing the maximum number of
2/n interned in Les Milles in the months leading up to the fall of the French Third Republic were in fact refugees who had fled the Third Reich due to Nazi anti-intellectual and antisemitic politics. A vibrant intellectual and artistic community formed in the camp. Several famous 
2/n drastically changed the family’s situation. Elisabeth was deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau along with her family in March of 1943. After six months she was put to work in the prisoner administration office, where she had to keep the “main book,” a register of all men imprisoned
2/n all other aliens, taken to the Saint Cyprien camp in southern France. His interment there was a personal watershed; then Felix comprehended the true extent of mortal peril as a Jew under Nazi rule. He expressed this epiphany in his important work, The Camp Synagogue 
2/n Born in 1913 in Krzepice, Poland, Esther Horonczyk was the youngest of five children of Rywka-Fraidla Horonczyk née Heller and Shimon Horonczyk. After Rywka's death in Poland, Esther emigrated to France with the rest of the family in 1926. In Paris, Esther
2/n After the German takeover of Austria in 1938, it became evident that the situation was getting progressively worse, so the family decided to flee.